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Études for Architects

Études for Architects

Organized around a series of pedagogical exercises this book provides a visual journey through a series of games architects can play as a means to design. Aimed specifically at beginner design students learning objectives include: computational thinking and making introduction to design as an iterative reflective and rigorous process ideas of continuity and discontinuity and understanding the bias and constraints of analog and digital tooling. The text is simple and straightforward to understand and in addition the author draws explanatory diagrams to elaborate on each exercise's description. He also includes visually compelling student work to provide insight into the possibilities of each exercise. Finally the book includes eighteen case studies from Europe the USA Mexico and Asia to inspire and inform. | Études for Architects

GBP 35.99
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Latour for Architects

Latour for Architects

Bruno Latour is one of the leading figures in Social Sciences today but his contributions are also widely recognised in the arts. His theories ‘flourished’ in the 1980s in the aftermath of the structuralism wave and generated new concepts and methodologies for the understanding of the social. In the past decade Latour and his Actor-Network Theory (ANT) have gained popularity among researchers in the field of architecture. Latour for Architects is the first introduction to the key concepts and ideas of Bruno Latour that are relevant to architects. First the book discusses critically how specific methods and insights from his philosophy can inspire new thinking in architecture and design pedagogy. Second it explores examples from architectural practice and urban design and reviews recent attempts to extend the methods of ANT into the fields of architectural and urban studies. Third the book advocates an ANT-inspired approach to architecture and examines how its methodological insights can trace new research avenues in the field reflecting meticulously on its epistemological offerings. Drawing on many lively examples from the world of architectural practice the book makes a compelling argument about the agency of architectural design and the role architects can play in re-ordering the world we live in. Following Latour’s philosophy offers a new way to handle all the objects of human and nonhuman collective life to re-examine the role of matter in design practice and to redefine the forms of social political and ethical associations that bind us together in cities.

GBP 21.99
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Women Architects in the Modern Movement

Women Architects in the Modern Movement

Women Architects in the Modern Movement rewrites the history of modern architecture to elevate the often-overlooked female architects who helped build the movement. Starting with a theoretical analysis that situates women’s roles both in society and architecture specifically Carmen Espegel examines the transition from women as objects to subjects at the advent of modernity. This theoretical basis is grounded through four case studies on pioneering women architects: Eileen Gray Lilly Reich Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and Charlotte Perriand. Along with illuminating their lives and work Espegel aims to help us examine and observe the world from a perspective where the feminine and masculine are not exclusive so that we might learn from the past in order to build with dignity in the future. Translated from the original Spanish by Angela Giral.

GBP 52.99
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How Architects Write

How Architects Write

How Architects Write shows you the interdependence of writing and design in both student and professional examples. This fully updated edition features more than 50 color images a new chapter on online communication and sections on critical reading responding to requests for proposals the design essay storyboarding and much more. It also includes resources for how to write history term papers project descriptions theses proposals research reports specifications field reports client communications post-occupancy evaluations and emailed meeting agendas so that you can navigate your career from school to professional practice.

GBP 31.99
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Architect's Legal Handbook The Law for Architects

Architect's Legal Handbook The Law for Architects

The Architect's Legal Handbook is the most widely used reference on the law for practicing architects and the established textbook on law for architectural students. Since the last edition of this book in 2010 the legal landscape in which architecture is practised has changed significantly: the long-standing procurement model with an architect as contract administrator has been challenged by the growing popularity of design and build contracts contract notices in place of certificates and novation of architect’s duties. The tenth edition features all the latest developments in the law which affect an architect's work as well as providing comprehensive coverage of relevant UK law topics. Key highlights of this edition include: an overview of the legal environment including contract tort and land law; analysis of the statutory framework including planning law health and safety construction legislation and building regulations in the post-Grenfell legal landscape; procurement and the major industry construction contract forms; building dispute resolution including litigation arbitration adjudication and mediation; key fields for the architect in practice including architects’ registration and professional conduct contracts with clients and collateral warranties liability in negligence and insurance; entirely new chapters on various standard form contracts architects’ responsibility for the work of others disciplinary proceedings and data protection; tables of cases legislation statutes and statutory instruments give a full overview of references cited in the text. The Architect’s Legal Handbook is the essential legal reference work for all architects and students of architecture. | Architect's Legal Handbook The Law for Architects

GBP 46.99
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Structural Design for Architects

Structural Design for Architects

First Published in 2017. An architect is not usually responsible for producing detailed structural calculations and drawings unless the building concerned is very small and simple. Where the architect can be most effective in the field of structural design is in the clarity of the manner in which suggested solutions in the form of schematic designs are put to a structural engineer. It is vital that an architect can propose forms from which the structural engineer need not deviate to the extent that the original design concept is violated. It is also important that he or she is able to make an informed and rational choice between apparently unrelated structural systems. The theme of this book therefore arises from the necessity for an architect to possess an extensive structural vocabulary based on a clear understanding of the relevant underlying principles. Although written mainly for practising architects it is hoped that the book will also provide a fresh perspective on the subject for building surveyors as well as for civil and structural engineers. | Structural Design for Architects

GBP 42.99
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Design for Fragility 13 Stories of Humanitarian Architects

Design for Fragility 13 Stories of Humanitarian Architects

The demand is now urgent for architects to respond to the design and planning challenges of rebuilding cities and landscapes being destroyed by civil conflict (un)natural disasters political instability and poverty. The number of people fleeing their homes and being displaced by such conflict now totals almost 100 million. Despite the massive human and physical costs of these crises the number of architects planners and landscape architects equipped to work with disaster and development professionals in rebuilding in the aftermath of conflict floods fires earthquakes typhoons and tsunamis remains chronically low. Design for Fragility expands the nascent but rapidly growing field of humanitarian architecture by exploring 13 design responses to such conflict and displacement across 11 countries including Australia Bangladesh Fiji India Iran Pakistan and the USA. Linked to this displacement is the systemic poverty that often lingers from previous colonial territories and eras in which many of the featured projects in the book are located. This book follows Charlesworth’s Humanitarian Architecture: 15 Stories of Architects Working After Disasters (Routledge 2014) which analysed the role for architects in exercising ‘spatial agency’ while designing shelter and settlement projects for communities after conflict and disaster. Since that time the humanitarian architecture movement has expanded globally with the prominence of design agencies including the MASS Design Group and Architecture Sans Frontières (ASF) International. Design for Fragility analyses this role of spatial agency in architecture by addressing diverse conditions of fragility across 13 built projects – from refugee housing in Uganda and an orphanage for teenage girls in Iran to a residential centre in Northern Australia for people with acquired brain injury. Each of the projects profiled in this book explore: The experiences and perceptions of fragility – or precarity – that provided a design challenge and directed the particular spatial response. The specific typology of the project whether that be a housing health children’s or a First Nations project. The personal values that influenced the architects to work on humanitarian/community projects and how consultation occurred with diverse and often contested project stakeholders. The experiences of the design team as well as project managers occupants and donors of the built project exploring what they deemed successful about the project and what if any were its limitations. Beautifully designed with over 150 illustrations this practical and inspiring book is for architects landscape architects design educators humanitarian and development aid agencies that are involved or seeking to be part of future disaster mitigation and reconstruction strategies and projects globally. | Design for Fragility 13 Stories of Humanitarian Architects

GBP 29.99
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Architects After Architecture Alternative Pathways for Practice

Architects After Architecture Alternative Pathways for Practice

What can you do with a degree in architecture? Where might it take you? What kind of challenges could you address? Architects After Architecture reframes architecture as a uniquely versatile way of acting on the world far beyond that of designing buildings. In this volume we meet forty practitioners through profiles case studies and interviews who have used their architectural training in new and resourceful ways to tackle the climate crisis work with refugees advocate for diversity start tech companies become leading museum curators tackle homelessness draft public policy become developers design videogames shape public discourse and much more. Together they describe a future of architecture that is diverse and engaged expanding the limits of the discipline and offering new paths forward in times of crisis. Whether you are an architecture student or a practicing architect considering a change you’ll find this an encouraging and inspiring read. Please visit the Architects After Architecture website for more information including future book launches and events: architectsafterarchitecture. com | Architects After Architecture Alternative Pathways for Practice

GBP 27.99
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Structure for Architects A Case Study in Steel Wood and Reinforced Concrete Design

Structure for Architects A Case Study in Steel Wood and Reinforced Concrete Design

Structure for Architects: A Case Study in Steel Wood and Reinforced Concrete Design is a sequel to the authors’ first text Structure for Architects: A Primer emphasizing the conceptual understanding of structural design in simple language and terms. This book focuses on structural principles applied to the design of typical structural members—a beam a girder and a column—in a diagrammatic frame building. Through the application of a single Case Study across three key materials the book illustrates the theory principles and process of structural design. The Case Study progresses step-by-step for each material from determining tributary areas and loads through a member's selection and design. The book addresses the frequent disparity between the way architects and engineers perceive and process information with engineers focusing on technical aspects and architects focusing on visual concepts. Structure for Architects: A Case Study in Steel Wood and Reinforced Concrete Design presents readers with an understanding of fundamental engineering principles through a uniquely thematic Case Study. Focusing on the conceptual understanding of structural design this book will be of interest to architecture students and professionals looking to understand the application of structural principles in relation to steel wood and concrete design. | Structure for Architects A Case Study in Steel Wood and Reinforced Concrete Design

GBP 35.99
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Materials for Architects and Builders

Materials for Architects and Builders

Materials for Architects and Builders provides a clear and concise introduction to the broad range of materials used within the construction industry and covers the essential details of their manufacture key physical properties specification and uses. Understanding the basics of materials is a crucial part of undergraduate and diploma construction or architecture-related courses and this established textbook helps the reader to do just that with the help of colour photographs and clear diagrams throughout. This new sixth edition has been completely revised and updated to include the latest developments in materials research new images appropriate technologies and relevant legislation. The ecological effects of building construction and lifetime use remain an important focus and this new edition includes a wide range of energy-saving building components.

GBP 51.99
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Case Study Strategies for Architects and Designers Integrative Data Research Methods

Case Study Strategies for Architects and Designers Integrative Data Research Methods

Case Study Strategies for Architects and Designers explains methods in evidence-based design also called practice-based research to show you the value of research to your designs. Topics covered pertain to data collection and analysis techniques including surveys interviews fieldwork participatory design occupancy evaluations and memory sketching. Integrative data evaluation theoretical sampling triangulation pattern matching logic and analytical generalization are also discussed. Global research precedents exercises further reading section summaries sidebars more than 30 black and white images and tables will help you conduct empirical inquiries in real-life contexts. | Case Study Strategies for Architects and Designers Integrative Data Research Methods

GBP 54.99
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Out of Architecture The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice

Out of Architecture The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice

Out of Architecture is both a call to reassess the architecture profession and its education and a toolkit for graduates and working architects to untangle their skills passions and value from traditional architectural practice and consider alternate pathways. Written by design professionals and expert career consultants this book is informed by numerous client accounts as well as the authors’ own stories and routes out of architecture. The initial chapters follow the narrative of a typical architecture training in the US highlighting the many highs and lows skills honed and ultimately the huge disconnect that can occur between architectural education and practice. Subsequent chapters explore a disillusionment with the profession unhealthy work cultures mentorship working with lead architects toxic perfectionism and the notion of a “calling. ” Authors then present the hopeful accounts of many architects who escaped a profession known for its grueling working conditions to find fulfilling well-paying creative jobs that better utilize the skills of architecture than the architectural profession itself. Written in a unique combination of storytelling and analysis this patchwork of client and author stories makes for an immersive provocative and enjoyable read. A wide range of architecture students graduates educators and professionals will recognize themselves within the pages of this book and find prompts to reassess their working practices teaching styles and the profession itself. It will be of particular value to those students skeptical of joining the architecture workforce as well as those further along and considering a career change. | Out of Architecture The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice

GBP 24.99
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Visual Communication for Architects and Designers Constructing the Persuasive Presentation

Visual Communication for Architects and Designers Constructing the Persuasive Presentation

Visual Communication for Architects and Designers teaches you the art of designing a concise clear compelling and effective visual and verbal presentation. Margaret Fletcher has developed a reference manual of best practices that gives you the necessary tools to present your work in the best way possible. It includes an impressive 750 presentation examples by over 180 designers from 24 countries in North America South America Europe the Middle East Asia Oceania and Africa. This book offers actionable advice to solve a variety of complex presentation challenges. You will learn how to: Understand differences in communication design representation design and presentation design and know how to use these skills to your advantage; Structure the visual and verbal argument in your presentation; Design your presentation layouts architectural competitions boards and digital presentations; Manage issues related to the presentation of architectural and design ideas; Present yourself professionally. Your ability to communicate your design ideas to others is an invaluable and important skill. Visual Communication for Architects and Designers shows you how to develop and implement these skills and gain command of your presentations. | Visual Communication for Architects and Designers Constructing the Persuasive Presentation

GBP 28.99
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Professional Practice for Landscape Architects

Professional Practice for Landscape Architects

Professional Practice for Landscape Architects third edition deals with the practical issues of being a successful landscape architect professional. Endorsed by the Landscape Institute this book is an indispensable guide for licentiate members of the Institute on their Pathway to Chartership. It follows the revised 2013 syllabus covering all aspects of professional judgement ethics and values the legal system organisation and management legislation and the planning system environmental policy and control procurement and implementation. It also serves as a reminder and reference for fully qualified professionals in their everyday practice and for landscape students. Valuable information is presented in an easy to follow manner with diagrams and schedules key acts professional documents and contracts clearly explained and made easy to understand. A handy list of questions are included to aid with P2C revision answers of which are found within the text.

GBP 175.00
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Big Little Hotel Small Hotels Designed by Architects

Big Little Hotel Small Hotels Designed by Architects

This book showcases small hotels all located in the United States designed by architects who use light and materials in interesting and intentional ways. The designs also deliberately connect to their local history context or land – in many cases all three. Both the architecture and the operations harmonize with the place whether that is a bustling city small town or natural area. Many are new buildings but some are adaptive reuse projects or renovations of historic properties extending the connectivity of the place into the future. A condensed history of lodging helps to place the many typologies and histories of hospitality in relationship to world events and includes the many factors that influence hotel development such as business practices technology and even politics. Hotels are influenced by larger trends and innovations in hospitality such as the emergence of a variety of creative possibilities for future travel. A final chapter includes speculation on travel trends and encourages us all to wander more intentionally. | Big Little Hotel Small Hotels Designed by Architects

GBP 29.99
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Architects Chest of Drawers Metal Off-white 5 Drawers

Architects Chest of Drawers Metal Off-white 5 Drawers

This chest of drawers from Norfolk Furniture offers unrivalled function with aesthetics to be proud of and is suitable for families who want to create a space which will be appreciated by the household for many years to come. A dependable drawer unit which is expertly made to a time-honoured design, this piece is stylish and practical, and ideal for any office situation. The subtle off-white tones will fit in beautifully. Five convenient drawers give you practical storage space.Perfect for storing and organising documents, artwork, maps, designs and blueprints. 100cm width drawers can hold large sheets of paper up to A1 size. Part of the Architects Collection.Includes helpful instructions to facilitate quick and easy assembly.Additional Features: Lockable metal drawers, each with a label holder.Specifications:Approximate Dimensions: 65 (H) x 100 (W) x 70 (D) cmMaterial: MetalAssembly required: yesDrawers: 5 DrawersPlease note: lifestyle photographs for illustration, 1x product listed supplied only. Furnishings available to purchase separately.

GBP 549.00
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